Topic: finally memorized my private key :D - page 4. (Read 3104 times)
That is pretty impressive, congrats. Obviously you are keeping several physical copies. Would give you an anxiety attack trying to type it in if you forgot 1 or 2 keys and couldn't figure out which one you were messed up on...
I have several wallets, some cold, some hot, but one has the most amount of BTCs in it. Of course it's one of my cold ones and i decided a few weeks ago to memorize the private key. Today, i like to say i managed to do it.
Anyone else done this? It's not that hard, if you memorize them in chunks of 4 for a few weeks.
Anyone else done this? It's not that hard, if you memorize them in chunks of 4 for a few weeks.
You should have converted it into a mnemonic of English words. Or started with diceware and sha256ed that to get a key pair.
http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html
Well, congrats on remembering it, I think. I can honestly say that I won't be able to remember something like that. I can barely remember the birthday of my own mom, so how would I remember something like that? 
Try it bud, this is what i did.
When I created my wallet from bitaddress I kept hitting "generate new wallet" until I saw a funny word at the start.
we all know they start with a 5. Here is an example address;
5NiNJA Lf9z gWQn ogid DA76 MzPL 6TsZ ZY36 hWXM ssSz NydY XYB9 KF
1234 5678 9012 3456 7890 1234 5678 9012 1234 5678 9012 34
so memorizing NiNJA is easy. The rest I did like this:
Day1. After the shower, I wrote down 4 charachters on the palm of my hand. ( luckily i have a lot of meetings at work, so i get to look at my hand a lot.
) Lf9zDay2. then i wrote the next four on my hand. gWQn
Day3. All eight. Lf9z gWQn
Day4. All eight. Lf9z gWQn
Day5. ogid
day6. DA76
day7. ogid DA76
day8. ogid DA76
day9. MzPL
day10 6TsZ
day11 MzPL 6TsZ
day12 MzPL 6TsZ
day13 ZY36
day14 hWXM
day15 ZY36 hWXM
day16 ZY36 hWXM
day17 ssSz
day18 NydY
day19 ssSz NydY
day20 ssSz NydY
day21 XYB9 KB
day22 XYB9 KB
then I tried to associate the end of one block of 8 to the beginning of the new block of 8 so i could get the order correctly, you know, kinda like TCP sequencing.
after that i could say about 90% of it. The other 10 % I just had to work on a bit to get it. (association with things)
I will def keep a paper copy somewhere. I've had several head injuries. ( thanks snowboarding)
i guess it's possible by forming a story out of the characters of one's private key, by expanding them into words... that's how these brain-masters in TV shows do it
leave a character out or two and the story wouldn't make sense anymore.
leave a character out or two and the story wouldn't make sense anymore.
Just hope you don't get Alzheimer later on. I would still make a backup anyways.
Well, congrats on remembering it, I think. I can honestly say that I won't be able to remember something like that. I can barely remember the birthday of my own mom, so how would I remember something like that?
I was going to do that but since the key is so long, I can see me forgetting on or 2 characters, especially if I dont repeat it daily. I would never memorizing it as the only copy. Now memorizing it and having a paper copy, now thats doable, even for me, lol..
I have several wallets, some cold, some hot, but one has the most amount of BTCs in it. Of course it's one of my cold ones and i decided a few weeks ago to memorize the private key. Today, i like to say i managed to do it.
Anyone else done this? It's not that hard, if you memorize them in chunks of 4 for a few weeks.
Anyone else done this? It's not that hard, if you memorize them in chunks of 4 for a few weeks.
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